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School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Melbourne
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In 2023, as international student numbers recovered to pre-COVID levels, the Australian government initiated a set of policy reviews that are likely to lead to a flurry of changes in the near future.
Many of the concerns addressed by these reviews are also evident in other destination countries, with the United Kingdom and Canada in particular recently announcing major policy changes of the kind that we might expect in Australia.
This forum will consider these policy and regulatory challenges in a global context, in an effort to tease out what has changed in the global education market, and what the new policy environment might look like, especially in relation to a levy on fees, measures to constrain student visa numbers and initiatives to tackle low-quality providers.
The speakers:
- Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, University of Oxford
- Abul Rizvi, Consultant and former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration
- Claire Field, Principal, Claire Field and Associates
- Melissa Banks, Former Head of International Education Centre of Excellence, Austrade
- Gwilym Croucher, Associate Professor in Higher Education Policy and Management, University of Melbourne
- Christopher Ziguras, Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
Morning tea and lunch provided.
National Centre for Contemporary Islamic Studies (NCCIS) Seminar
Given the sensitive nature of cybersecurity in authoritarian regimes, the existence of semi-autonomous patriotic hackers raises questions about their function because no security-adjacent actor in an authoritarian context can survive without at least tacit regime approval.
Reflecting the attention that the phenomenon has received from scholars of defence and cybersecurity, the hackers’ presence has to date been viewed as a pragmatic strategy that either compensates for autocrats’ own lack of technological capacity, or that deflects blowback from high-stakes cyber operations. But less is known about how the hackers’ presence relates to how authoritarian regimes stabilise their rule in order to survive.
This talk presents the findings of a paper recently published in a special issue of Democratization on digital authoritarian that asks: how does the devolution of cybersecurity functions to patriotic hackers influence regime stabilisation and survival agendas?
Please note that this is a hybrid event. Book your tickets accordingly.